Marketed under its Roxio brand, Toast 7 software allows users to drag and drop files onto a blank Blu-ray Disc with up to 50GB of storage capacity.

The software is being marketed for OEM developing next-generation external Blu-ray Disc drives.

Separately, Technicolor Home Entertainment Services, a unit of Thomson, announced Wednesday that it has three HD DVD and three Blu-ray Disc operational replication lines at its headquarters in Camarillo, Calif.